Autoinmune Diseases. Acute and Complex Situations

About This Book

Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations provides a detailed overview of conditions associated with autoimmune diseases that are considered either life-threatening or requiring complex management. These include abdominal pain, arthritis, cutaneous ulcers, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, epilepsy, pancreatitis, stroke and white-matter CNS lesions. Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations addresses the latest clinical and immunological prognostic factors that may help to identify patients at higher risk of developing potentially life-threatening involvement. This book comprehensively helps the reader to diagnose these patients, in whom an early therapeutic approach is essential. Autoimmune Diseases: Acute and Complex Situations is a valuable reference tool for rheumatologists, internists, immunologists, and all the specialists involved in the multidisciplinary care of patient with rheumatic and systemic autoimmune diseases.

Table of Contents

• 1 Assessment and Management of the Rheumatological Patient in the Critical Care Unit
  David P. D’Cruz and Duncan L.A. Wyncoll
• 2 Life-Threatening Complications of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
  Michelle Petri
• 3 Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome
  Maria J. Cuadrado, Giovanni Sanna, Maria Laura Bertolaccini, and Munther A. Khamashta
• 4 Complex Situations in Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Miriam García-Arias, Gema Bonilla, Luis Gómez-Carreras, and Alejandro Balsa
• 5 Sjögren’s Syndrome: Beyond Sicca Involvement
  Manuel Ramos-Casals, Pilar Brito-Zerón, Albert Bové Boada, and Antoni Sisó-Almirall
• 6 Systemic Sclerosis: Severe Involvement of Internal Organs
  Niamh P. Quillinan and Christopher P. Denton
• 7 Vasculitic Emergencies in Patients with Large-Vessel Vasculitis
  Kathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon and Gary S. Hoffman
• 8 Life-Threatening Presentations of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis
  Duvuru Geetha and Philip Seo
• 9 Severe Polyarteritis Nodosa
  Loïc Guillevin and Gregory Pugnet
• 10 Life-Threatening Cryoglobulinemia
  Soledad Retamozo, Cándido Díaz-Lagares, Xavier Bosch, Salvatore de Vita, and Manuel Ramos-Casals
• 11 Behçet’s Syndrome: Clinical Presentations Affecting Prognosis and Survival
  Emire Seyahi, Koray Tascilar, and Hasan Yazici
• 12 Myositis: When Weakness Can Kill
  Patrick Gordon and Ingrid E. Lundberg
• 13 Complicated Sarcoidosis: Challenges in Dealing with Severe Manifestations
  Robert P. Baughman and Hilario Nunes
• 14 Complex Situations in Patients with Adult-Onset Still’s Disease
  Petros V. Efthimiou, Manil Kukar, and Olga Petryna
• 15 Managing Acute and Complex Dermatological Situations
  Eduardo Fonseca and Rosa M. Fernández-Torres
• 16 Life-Threatening Autoimmune Hematological Disorders
  Emmanuel Andrès, Helen Fothergill, and Mustapha Mecili
• 17 Autoimmune Ear, Nose, and Throat Emergencies
  Aharon Kessel, Zahava Vadasz, and Elias Toubi
• 18 Ophthalmological Emergencies in Rheumatic and Autoimmune Diseases
  Edward Pringle and Miles Stanford
• 19 Emergencies for the Vascular Surgeon
  Ashish S. Patel and Matthew Waltham
• 20 Complicated Pregnancies in Patients with Autoimmune Systemic Diseases
  Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza and Munther A. Khamashta
• 21 The Complex Management of Viral-Related Autoimmune Diseases
  Dimitrios Vassilopoulos and Spilios Manolakopoulos
• 22 The Role of Intravenous Immunoglobulins in the Management of Acute Complex Autoimmune Conditions
  Rotem Kedar, Yehuda Shoenfeld, and Howard Amital
• 23 Life-Threatening Complications of Biological Therapies
  Ana Campar and David A. Isenberg
• Index